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Don'tcompute

Posted 02 January 2008 - 01:53 PM

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Whenever I reboot and click on the user name, I will get a message saying something close to "the procedure point could not be located in dynamic link library user32.dll" what exactly does this mean? Everything seems to work fine after the message.

Posted 02 January 2008 - 08:19 PM

Don'tcompute

Posted 03 January 2008 - 12:54 AM

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I found out the error says "Entry point IsThreadDesktopComposited could not be located in dynamic library user32.dll"

???

Also, if it helps, I think it has to do with O&O Defrag (first time I got the error) because when I open O&O Defrag, I get the error. So, I'm guessing the error shows on reboot because it has auto run on windows startup.

Ztruker

Posted 03 January 2008 - 03:52 PM

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I did a Google search on the complete error message and got quite a few hits. The first one HERE indicates this is caused by the presence of the file DWMAPI.DLL which was installed with IE7. I reverted to IE6, renamed the file and the error went away.

Don'tcompute

Posted 03 January 2008 - 10:58 PM

Ztruker

Posted 04 January 2008 - 03:54 PM

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Sorry but I don't know the answer to that question. I don't have or want IE7 so have no experience with it.

What you can do it rename it rather than delete it, or move it to a temp directory then see if IE7 continues to work okay and the error message goes away. I suspect it will not work or you will get different or additional errors.

Ztruker

Posted 04 January 2008 - 09:15 PM

trebor33

Posted 17 February 2008 - 02:51 PM

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Good morning mister Ztruker,I write you since France where I have the same problem with Oodefrag (version 10) which points out to to-me the same error as Mister Don’tcompute.The misfortune for me is that I have only the single PC and that I have IE7 installed. Therefore I cannot find the ancient version of dwmapi.dll in IE6.Can point out to me where I could find dwmapi.dll of version IE6?

P.s. I also had the same problem by carrying out ' Registtryboosterdllscan2 ' program in the same way as Oodefrag.

Thanks for your help.A big Good morning since France.Excuse the style of this mail because it is prepared in English language by the program of translation @Promt7.8.Trebor33

Kaylee Brown

Posted 15 March 2010 - 02:11 PM

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OK um.
my windows, Firefox, and various other applications are coming up with this error msg. i would fix by changing that ei7 or something but i dont know how to. do you think you could give me a walk through of how to fix it as ive had this problem for a while and its really bugging me.

rshaffer61

Posted 15 March 2010 - 02:21 PM

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Direct to: Kaylee Brown

Please start your own topic as this topic has not had a reply since Feb of 2008 over two years ago.Although your issue may seem similar there can be other factors that may need to be resolved. By bumping on someone's topic it makes it confusing for the tech to understand who they are helping. This can in turn cause the wrong support to be given and can cause instability or worse to happen to your system. Thank you for your cooperation.